Take Control of Your Home, Your Time and Your Life.

Our brain likes to choose the known over the unknown, even if we're not enjoying what's known and we know it's not good for us. This is highly inconvenient, but, like most things, came about out of good intentions. Our brain wants to keep us safe.

Fortunately we have the ability to make conscious choices and override our automatic responses if we choose to.Even so, the pull to make the same old crappy choices, like:

How do you feel about what you achieved in 2011? How excited and confident are you about what you will be achieving in 2012?

Making specific goals and writing them down, dramatically increases the chances of success. What if this coming year you set goals you felt great about and achieved them? Let’s dare to dream.

I know it can be scary – if we don’t say it out loud then it won’t hurt so much if we fail. But what if? What if we could make a wish list of reasonable, possible things that would make us feel fantastic, and what if they did come true? What if it was all our own choice?

Well of course it is. We know what we are capable of (and that it’s actually much more than we think). Why not put some juicy goals in writing and arrange to achieve them? I will if you will. J

Ok, so here are some steps for setting goals for the year ahead that will put you in the drivers seat on the road to success. This is what I’m doing, and I invite you to join me.

I'm pretty sure Napoleon Hill said that, and I'm reminded of his famous book Think and Grow Rich often as I absorb the ideas and concepts taught today in the world of personal development.

We've all got stuff we want to achieve in our lives, big things and smaller things. Love, friendship, happy well adjusted kids, a well run, organized home, being healthy, being a size we feel comfortable with, financial security, learning a skill that brings us pleasure, helping others and making a valuable contribution, a project around the home, travel, all sorts of things. In order to achieve any of these wonderful, worthwhile, desirable things, we must persist in pursuing them.

So what does persistence mean? I think of it as the famous old "just keep showing up" trick. (Not quite the same as the old "banana in the tailpipe" trick.) There are all sorts of variations on this. I've heard stories of people getting a job they didn't think they had much chance at getting simply because they showed up and nobody else did, or showing up and ending up with a different job. There's also the phenomenon that if you repeatedly "show up", no matter how stubborn or stupid you are, you are likely to accidentally learn something and achieve at least small improvements in your methods and knowledge, or that somebody will eventually notice you, or that you will happen to be in the right place at the right time, or that you will learn from those around you or the environment you have been showing up to.

We can often find ourselves in a situation where what we need to do to move forward in our lives, make progress and achieve our goals is to learn how to overcome procrastination and get unstuck. Good time management has no room for avoidance, uncertainty and putting things off. Overcoming procrastination is high on the list of things that need urgent attention in many people’s lives, but just how, exactly do we stop procrastination?

Feeling stuck, overwhelmed and unsure how to move forward with a particular goal or project is unpleasant, uncomfortable, even painful. If we can recognize where this is going on in our lives and learn how to overcome procrastination and get unstuck in the areas of highest importance for us, we can dramatically improve our happiness and quality of life. Our time management depends on us being able to actually carry out what we have planned to do.

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